Four specialists (a child psychiatrist, an oncologist, a cardiologist and a rheumatologist) conducted telemedicine clinics using videoconferencing at a bandwidth of 128-384 kbit/s. The consultations were videorecorded. The ...

To determine what percentage of traditional home health nursing visits could be done by telemedicine, we carried out a retrospective review of nursing charts (clinical records). Data of two types were recorded. The objective ...

As the number of telemedicine programs continues to grow, the accuracy of diagnosis over interactive televideo is a central concern. Although investigators have begun to address diagnostic equivalency in telehealth clinics, ...

The effectiveness of a prison telepsychiatry service was evaluated from a user perspective. Forty-five inmates (41 male, 4 female) completed the Symptom Rating Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) on three occasions, once before ...

Oncology services have been provided by telemedicine from the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) for almost 10 years. We have analysed the costs associated with providing tele-oncology clinics to a rural Kansas ...

The costs of providing oncology services in three different ways were measured. Services were provided to a peripheral hospital by: conventional clinics, in which the oncologist worked at the hospital concerned; outreach ...

While telemedicine programme objectives, technologies and even philosophies will differ, certain common factors that enhance programme success can be identified. For example, a programme design which is driven by technological ...